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Creative Writing is the loneliest of past times...
...novels, short stories, poetry; it makes little difference
locked away in a room with only the radio and a cat for company.
- The Writer's Forum
- ..needs a group leader
Our Critics Corner- Where our members can submit their material for informed and constructive criticism and...
- Our Writer's Showcase
- Where new writers can post sample chapters for others - hopefully including agents and publishers can read your finished material.
- Your Personal Favourites
- Share your 5 all-time favourite books with us all, and tell us why you love them.
Could that be you?
All you need is a passion for your subject and the ability to type with at least two fingers!
Why not give it a try?
Even when the work is finished, we struggle to get it reviewed properly, and criticism from our nearest and dearest can be hurtful if probably well meant.
...hence our creative writing group
Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway might have written commercial and artistic masterpieces from birth: Charlotte Bronte might be able to write deathless prose locked away in a moorland vicarage, but most of us need the input of others.
Whether you're a poet, a novelist or a journalist, you can be part of the Creative Writer's Group.
...and we need informed criticism!
If we are to get our dialogs right, correct our points of view, show and not tell, we need to be read by people who know and care about these things.
So make a start....
and Submit your work for peer review on Retired but Active.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
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